An opposition party representative has been elected first deputy mayor of Vanadzor after his faction struck a controversial deal with the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) to end a stymie in the work of a local municipal council boycotted by its majority opposition groups.
Amid a continuing lack of interest shown by opposition parties, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) dominated local elections held in 69 communities across the country at the weekend.
More than a hundred former employees of a troubled chemical plant in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor blocked its main entrance on Tuesday to demand several months’ worth of back pay.
An Armenian opposition party has strongly criticized the top clergyman of Vanadzor for effectively voicing support for the pro-government mayor of Armenia’s third largest city controversially installed three months ago.
In a dramatic setback, three opposition parties that struck a power-sharing deal in Vanadzor on Monday failed to appoint the new mayor of Armenia’s third-largest city, despite winning a majority of seats in the local council earlier this month.
A mayoral candidate from Vanadzor was detained on Wednesday after being accused of a violent assault connected with a weekend local election held in Armenia’s third largest city.
The governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) claimed victory in local elections held in about 300 communities on Sunday but risked losing control of Vanadzor, the country’s third largest city.
The recently established opposition political party led by Armenia’s former foreign minister Vartan Oskanian has declared a regime change as its main goal in the October 2 municipal elections in the country’s second and third largest cities, Gyumri and Vanadzor.
Angry workers of a troubled chemical plant in the northern Armenian city of Vanadzor again demonstrated on Wednesday to demand the payment of their back wages for the past several months.
President Ilham Aliyev visited Azerbaijani troops stationed near “the line of contact” east of Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday amid continuing fighting with Armenian forces that left another Azerbaijani soldier dead.
Scores of panic-stricken residents of Vanadzor rushed out of their homes early on Monday after a low-magnitude earthquake jolted Armenia’s third largest city and surrounding areas.
An elderly Armenian man freed by Azerbaijan was tortured during his more than month-long captivity and needs to remain in hospital for the time being, doctors and his relatives said on Wednesday.
The mayor of Spitak on Friday rejected opposition calls for a square in the central Armenian town honoring Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to be renamed because of the bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters in Kiev.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian attracted small crowds on Friday as he visited Armenia’s second and third largest cities to drum up support for his new campaign of anti-government street protests.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday controversial guilty verdicts stemming from the 2010 death of a soldier which heightened public awareness of violent crimes committed in the Armenian army.
Five soldiers were sentenced to between three and ten years in prison on Tuesday in connection with the 2010 death of a fellow serviceman that heightened public awareness of violent crimes committed in the Armenian army.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday promised to substantially reduce widespread poverty in Armenia if he wins a second five-year term in office.
Zharangutyun (Heritage) party leader Raffi Hovannisian on Wednesday sought to position himself as the main opposition candidate to challenge President Serzh Sarkisian in next February’s presidential election.
Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian on Friday brushed aside farmers’ complaints about the quality of so-called “elite seeds” which the Armenian government had distributed to them in an effort to increase wheat production in the country.
Raffi Hovannisian, the leader of the Zharangutyun (Heritage), voiced support on Wednesday for an election-related appeal to the Constitutional Court filed by two other major opposition groups and the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK).
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